I have to be honest with you: This isn't really archaic art. It's just some random stuff I started to draw one day, in the middle of a boring class. It's only that. And then again it's more than that. At first I started doing quick sketches of my teacher or the guys sitting next to me. And after doing this for almost a year I got better at it. I improved. They say practice will often cause that... a certain improvement. If that's the case, I'll continue holding pens and nibs.

January 25, 2013

Fashion Beast # 4 - Alan Moore & Facundo Percio

“It’s not sex he finds erotic… it’s the buttons and stays that get in the way of sex! His clothes don’t allow any sexual access, reducing people to a lot of furtive groping under layers of gown for something they’re not even allowed to see”. That’s such a brilliant line, and in way it also sums up how we deal with sexuality and eroticism. The idea of the naked body as something shameful is part of us now, it wasn’t necessarily that way in Ancient Greece or the Roman Empire, but today we feel the need to cover, only to covet for what lies beneath.

Tomboy

In the fourth installment of Fashion Beast, Alan Moore, Malcolm McLaren and Anthony Johnston explore even further this world of fashion, this frivolous city in which everyone pays more attention to Celestine’s spring collection than to the impending threat of a nuclear winter.

Now that Doll is Celestine’s main model, she is also the only one authorized to modify the designs of the ultimate designer; meanwhile, Tomboy helps Doll with advices about fashion. Tomboy has no respect for Celestine, and by redesigning clothes she is also redefining the feminine essence. Simone de Beauvoir claimed once that “one is not born, but, rather, becomes a woman”. Tomboy was born a female, however, she wants to become a male. Either way it’s clear that gender is in no way a stable identity or locus of agency, nor is it a result of biological mandates. Gender should be understood as an identity tenuously constituted in time through reiterative acts. In order to be a woman, one must act as a woman every second of the day. There is no such thing as a substantial model of identity in any given sex -male or female- the conception of gender has greatly varied in different eras and different civilizarions, it is what we could denominate a “conception of a constituted social temporality”.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

About Me

Comic books are my passion. They are as precious to me as the oxygen I breathe, and perhaps even more. The 9th art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. And through the years, this passion kept on increasing, thus turning me into an active participant. I started as a reader and later on I became a full-fledged writer and artist. Indeed I’ve found the perfect way to have twice as much pleasure when it comes to comics: I can either read them or write and draw them. And I absolutely love doing both!